Mathematics
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Apud Doctorem Ruyschium Amsterodami, 24 May 1693
De affirmanda parallaxi magni orbis, cogitatum Hugenii, June 1693
A transcription of Christiaan Huygen's argument that because stars' observed radii are so insensibly small, the diameter of the earth's orbit relative to the stars' position is also insensible, and thus the parallax measurement, which ought to prove or disprove the Copernican layout of the heavens, is useless.
Epist ad D. Hugenium..., 10 September 1693
Draft of a letter to Christiaan Huygens, in which Gregory follows up on his promise in Holland to send along his 'second method' of quadrature in detail.
Folio C, c1680-c1708
Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700
An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.
Memoranda et observata in Batavia 1693 Maio, 17 May 1693
Observata et dicta apud D. Hugenium, 06 June 1693
Notes of a conversation in Holland with Christian Huygens, concerning an 'horologium' to show hours, months, years, and planetary positions. More general mention of the work of numerous other scientists: Notably, Huygens disputes the notion of John Bernoulli (James Bernoulli's younger brother) that the curve of an inflated sail is part-catenary and part-circle, and warns that Newton ought not to be 'deflected' into theology or chemistry.
Oratio de Quadr: Lunale Hypocratis, 1690
Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one Laurence Oliphant. This young man may have been Gregory's future brother-in-law.
The subject is Hyppocrates' lunula. Two documents on the same subject come before this, no doubt as supporting notes. One is the draft of a letter from Gregory to Wallis, referring to a 1687 article by Tchirnhausen in the Leipzig Acta, the other, a transcript of that article.
Problema Alhazeni, c1690
Huygens's treatment of a problem by Alhazen, which appears to have been copied out at the same time as item 23 before.
Propositiones Quaedam de Ludo Aleae ..., s.d.
Propositions from Huygens on dicing and games of chance generally. (He may mean 'tessella' where he refers to 'tessera', or perhaps he refers to dominoes.)